John Ralston

Reviews

Nadia, Butterfly

Pascal Plante’s Nadia, Butterfly eerily takes place at the now-cancelled 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and follows a French Canadian Olympian swimmer as she participates in her final event as a professional athlete.  Lovingly directed yet glacially paced, Nadia, Butterfly boasts some excellent performances and cinematography, but struggles to overcome its vague characterizations and meandering screenplay.

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Mary Goes Round

Mary Goes Round is an acceptable gateway to long-form filmmaking for Canadian writer/director Molly McGlynn.  She comes prepared with a resume of shorts, of which I’ve only seen one (3-Way (Not Calling)).  It was so illustrious with its humour and honesty, that I started to anticipate McGlynn’s first feature-length film.